The palaver began again, and ended in the exchange of an ox for a promise of food, in which he was wofully cheated.

The so-much-an-hour hero turns out an engaging young gentleman, but a wofully poor protagonist.

Then gan she wofully to waile, and wring Her wretched hands in lamentable wise; 170 And all her sisters, thereto answering, Threw forth lowd shrieks and drerie dolefull cries.

I walked three times past the house, wofully tempted, my love and my will at cruel warfare; but I did not go in.

But I have been wofully neglectful of you, so that I do not deserve to announce to you, that if I do not hear from you before then, I will set out on Wednesday morning to take you by the hand.

You are hideously cynical, and I am wofully tired of you.'

I live in dread of the possible effect on you and Kate of the account of his education by his fatherthe principles right, the application so wofully wrong.

His face was wofully meagre, and seemed scored and overlaid with care-marks.

That language must be wofully poverty-stricken, which has no signs to represent the most common and familiar objects and conditions.

Miss Fotheringay, for instance, represented his notions as to what a woman should be physically, but intellectually he found her wofully below his required standard.

Leaning against the wall, at the foot of the tomb, is the shaft of a spear, with a wofully tattered and utterly faded banner appended to it,the knightly banner beneath which he marshalled his followers in the field.

If men and women do as a matter of fact usually make this choice hastily and on wofully imperfect information of one another's characters, that is no warrant for a resort to unlawful expedients to remedy the blunder.

Kerbstone, whose appeals for help he had disregarded, and whose property had been wofully depreciated by the course of the "bears," of whom Bullion was chief, failed for a large sum.

There was in the eager faces, some almost wofully serious, some half-smiling, all wide-eyed and with craning necks, a tremendous indication of an almost breathless interest.

Both of these statements are probably mere estimates, greatly exaggerated; any westerner of to-day can instance similar reports of movements to western localities, which under a strict census dwindled wofully.]

Especially at the recurring periods of financial stress, such as occurred in 1893, 1903, and 1907, our banking machinery showed itself to be wofully unequal to the strain put upon it.

" "Yes," I said, "I feel stupid, and my spirits are wofully down.

I must have been wofully tired.

I have never done a season before, and the heat and the late hours have tired me wofully.

But if they expected to commence operations by subjecting their pupils to their own legitimate standard, and to bring about a tame acquiescence in the existing order of things, they were wofully mistaken.

The simplicity of the old Pope's story is wofully hurt by the grandiloquence of the French Abbé: "Le Pontife écoutait avec délices l'harmonie des Cantiques que l'Église fait monter vers le Seigneur au lever du jour.

The room is whitewashed and very clean, but wofully shabby and dingy, coarsely built, and such as the most poetical imagination would find it difficult to idealize.

Again, women, and the best women, are wofully deficient in sanitary knowledge; although it is to women that we must look, first and last, for its application, as far as household hygiene is concerned.

What fingers" (holding them up wofully to the light); "every color of the rainbow!

and I shook my head wofully.